Tips for Search Engine Friendly Website Designing
Tips for Search Engine Freindly Design
Website Content
There are several factors that determine the success or failure of your endeavour. Good useful and informative content is why people come to visit you. If you don't have enough of it, and if it isn't relevant content, then we all do the same thing...click away, go elsewhere.Everybody want that user interested, to stick around, and especially to come back to your site more
And enrich your pages with keyword filled content using our balanced and ethical approach. And also present your content and your code to the spider in such a manner that he can tell exactly what a particularpage is about.
Thus enabling your site to rank higher and get more visitors to your site and more business to you.
Images and Alt tags
Images
Images play a very key in making this web site as useful and informative as it is. Throughout the site images are displayed with the option to be enlarged so as to make them easy for the user to view in more detail. The images are used primarily to illustrate the text of the different documents making up the site. But make sure your images are relevant to your content. An image that is there for no purpose will only confuse visitors and boost file size.
When saving images to be used on the Internet it is best to save images that are text and flat color as GIF. If the image is a photo or contains gradients it should be saved as a JPG.
Alt Tag
Since search engines don't index images, they can't index all the text that your web site has in image format. To fix this problem, there are ALT tags, which are basically images' descriptions. ALT tags are an excellent way of dealing with images, but they're not the solution. Not all engines are capable of reading ALT tags. When using the
Website Navigation
Navigation is an important element of a website. A good navigation helps your visitors navigate through your website efficiently - in as few mouse-clicks as possible. You can think of a website navigation like the "Index" of a book. And the greater the number of web pages on your website, the more important the role of a website navigation menu. Another important benefit of a navigation menu is it optimizes the internal linking structure of your website and allows the navigation links to rank better in search engines. with the help of this navigation search engines crawls your website. you submit only one page in the search engine and all the pages that are linked with that page are crawlled by serach engine spiders.
Easy Readability of Text
Text is best for a small, but important and growing, group of Internet users. instead of images text is loaded faster than images. On the other way some user who can use low speed connection or dial up conection dont wait for images to load they can wait only when the text is relevant to their quries or they can search for. here are the some techniquies to choose the font types and styles.
- Don’t use silly fonts that might look really cool in your HTML editor, but are unreadable on the Web.
- Avoid busy backgrounds that obscure the text; if site visitors have to slow down to interpret your text, you’ve just lost an audience.
- Make your text scanable: use bullets, headlines, and bold text so users can scan your content quickly.
Keyword and Phrases
What is keyword ?
It is a word or phrase that is typed into a search engine or directory that describes what the reader will see on your site. The best keywords consist of multiple words and phrases.
The content of your website and it's targeted keyword phrases complement each other and play a major roll in the chances of your customers finding your site using Internet search engines.
You probably should have four but no more than six. If you have more than six, they are difficult to repeat all the different keywords on the first page of your website. Once your pages are added to the index, people can do a search on the Internet for various keywords to find pages that "best" match their search criteria. Appearing within the first few pages of the search is critical to people finding you.
These matches will be ranked or positioned in order of importance.
Title Tags of Pages
The Title tag is extremely important to both search engine users and search engine spiders.The title tag can be found in the HEAD section of your web pages, and should be different for every page in your site. with the help of this title tag crawler take an idea about the page. if it is not optimized properly, than you’ve lost a vital source for high rankings.
Meta Tags - keyword and Description
Description Meta Tag
The Meta Description Tag is a part of HTML code that allows you to give a short and concise summary of your web page content. The words placed in this Meta Tag, are often used in the search engines result pages. In other words the meta description tag describes your site's content, giving the reader and the search engine an accurate summary filled with multiple keywords. Meta tags are hidden in the document's source, invisible to the readers. Some search engines, however, are able to use meta tags as a part of their algorithm. it placed in the head section of the web page
- A meta description tag can boost your rankings on some engines.
- Use it on all pages
- Limit it to 150 characters
- Should contain keywords
- Keywords shouldn't repeat more than 7 times
Keyword Meta Tag
A meta keyword tag summarizes all the keywords that you would like to be found under for search engines. Meta tags are hidden in the document's source, invisible to the reader. Some search engines, however, do see and use them as a part of their algorithm. Amongst all the places you can use your important keyword phrases, the usage of keywords in the Title Tag gives the highest weight.
While using your keyword phrases in the Title Tag, it is important to be highly focused. You should use the same keywords not just in your Title Tag, but also in your page content and the Meta Description Tag of your web page. If the keywords you intend using in your Title Tag do not appear anywhere else in your page’s content, then avoid using them in your page title as the weight of the keywords in the Title Tag gets diluted.
- Provides a list of keywords
- Limit it to 1024 characters
- List keywords in order of importance
- Don't repeat the same keyword more than 7 times
